Roman history, especially the social and political history of the empire; topography of Rome; Rome's northern frontiers; Roman women; Latin historiography

Areas of Interest

Ancient MediterraneanTemperate Europe (Roman period)

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University

Professor in the Department of History, 2005 - present

Professor of Ancient History in the Department of Classical Studies, 1995-present

Chairman, Department of Classical Studies, 1996-99, 2010-11, 2014-17

Associate Professor of Classical Studies, 1985-95

Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, 1982-85

A.W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, 1979-82

Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies

A.W. Mellon Professor-in-Charge, 1992-93

Graduate Assistant, 1976-77

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

John and Penelope Biggs Residency in the Classics, Washington University in St. Louis, Washington University in St. Louis, November, 2012
Writing Beyond the Disciplines award, Duke University, May, 2010
Dean’s Distinguished Service Award, Duke University, 2008
Designation as a Mellon Foundation course of graduate course "The Historians," as part of "Making the Humanities Central" project, sponsored by Duke's John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 2003
Summer Stipends Awards, National Endowment for the Humanities
Grants for "Romanization on the Northern Frontier: The Evidence of the Pannonian Stelae”, Duke Univ. Arts & Sciences Research Council (A&SRC), 2000-2001, 2002-2003
Grant for “Women on the Edge: Depictions of Women on Rome’s Northeastern Frontier (Pannonia)”, Duke’s A&SRC, 1999-2000
Fellowship for University Teachers, for Hadrian and the Cities of the Roman Empire, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1995-96
Fellowships for University Teachers, National Endowment for the Humanities
Summer Stipend for research on Hadrian and cities in Greece, Turkey, Romania and Serbia (declined), National Endowment for the Humanities, 1995
Gildersleeve Prize, for “The Imperial Women of the Early Second Century A.C.,” American Journal of Philology 112 (1991) 513-40.
Annual “Regular Grants” for “Hadrianic Urbanization in the Roman Empire” Duke Univ. Research Council, 1987-90, 1992-95
Selected as an applicant for a NEH Summer Stipend for research on Hadrian and cities in Cilicia, Pamphylia, Lycia, Pisidia and Lycaonia, Duke University, 1989
Fellowship, for research on "Hadrianic Urbanization in the Roman Empire", George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation, 1986-87
NEH stipend for publication of Hadrian and the City of Rome, Princeton University Press, 1986
Regular Grants for Hadrian and the City of Rome, Duke University Research Council, 1984, 1985
Research Grant for Hadrian and the City of Rome, American Philosophical Society, 1984
Duke Endowment Award for Excellence in Teaching, Duke University, 1982
Regular Grant for research in Roman Spain, Duke University Research Council, 1981
Fellowship from Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan, 1978-79
Borso di Studio, Università per Stranieri, Perugia, Italy, Summer 1974
Phi Beta Kappa, Stanford University, 1972

Jeannine Uzzi, The Representation of Children in Public Art of Roman Empire, from Augustus to Constantine, (1998)

Darryl Phillips, Voting During the Principate of Augustus, (1994)

Professional Affiliations

American Philological AssociationArchaeological Institute of AmericaSociety for the Promotion of Roman Studies Association of Ancient Historians Society of Fellows of the American Academy in RomeAdvisory Council of the American Academy in Rome